Job 17 Brenton's English Septuagint

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Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.

Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint

WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)

1 I perish, carried away by the wind, and I seek for burial, and obtain [it] not.

1 “My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct and the grave is ready for me.

2 Weary I intreat; and what have I done? and strangers have stolen my goods.

2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

3 Who is this? let him join hands with me.

3 “Now give a pledge. Be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

4 For thou hast hid their heart from wisdom; therefore thou shalt not exalt them.

4 For you have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

5 He shall promise mischief to [his] companions: but [their] eyes have failed for [their] children.

5 He who denounces his friends for plunder, even the eyes of his children will fail.

6 But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.

6 “But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

7 For my eyes are dimmed through pain; I have been grievously beset by all.

7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

8 Wonder has seized true men upon this; and let the just rise up against the transgressor.

8 Upright men will be astonished at this. The innocent will stir himself up against the godless.

9 But let the faithful hold on his own way, and let him that is pure of hands take courage.

9 Yet the righteous will hold to his way. He who has clean hands will grow stronger and stronger.

10 Howbeit, do ye all strengthen [yourselves] and come now, for I do not find truth in you.

10 But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

11 My days have passed in groaning, and my heart-strings are broken.

11 My days are past. My plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.

12 I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

12 They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.

13 For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: and my bed has been made in darkness.

13 If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

14 I have called upon death to be my father, and corruption [to be] my mother and sister.

14 if I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘My sister,’

15 Where then is yet my hope? or [where] shall I see my good?

15 where then is my hope? As for my hope, who will see it?

16 Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?

16 Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”

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